One of them says, "In COD we trust". He must like fish. Also the first one in the OP just looks bad.
With your handle, you must be Greek. So am I. But I also took Latin in school...
"Mea maxima culpa"? Non omne quod nitet aurum est...
The fasces was an ancient Roman symbol. In Latin, the word is plural ("fascis" is singular and means "bundle") and means exactly what the coin...
I'd go to a different coin shop.
Wow! That's a nice find! Definitely a die clash. Among other things, look underneath the "A" in "States" on the reverse and you see the "O"...
I voted fake. Look at the stars on the obverse and how undefined they are, especially the points, compared to a real one, even in circulated...
I have an MS 1921 Morgan with EXACTLY that type of bag mark. Sorry but I don't have a photo of it, but it's definitely a PMD bag mark from...
Great finds, and you didn't overpay for them for sure! BTW welcome to Coin Talk!
Agreed. I sold a half roll of my duplicate circulated Franklin halves when silver was at $29 but I'm holding right now and not buying for several...
It's been said that there are more fake 1878-CC Trade Dollars out there than there are real ones.
I'm late to the party on this thread, but the first thing I noticed in Exhibit A is that the "U" in "United" has NO SERIF at the top right, which...
I remember those cars and LOVED the looks of them!!!
I never find ANYTHING. I think store employees either clean the trays out repeatedly or people just take the rejects out after they dump their...
Fin was also a slang term for a $5 bill
All I can say is...wow... https://nypost.com/2020/10/16/plane-passenger-caught-smuggling-gold-in-rectum-to-avoid-taxes/
Clad coinage was made because the price of silver had gotten to the point where it was worth more than the face value of the coin.
Quality control. I'm sure everything is supposed to be inspected.
If they were truly unsearched, how did the seller know they were all Morgans and there wasn't a Peace dollar or two in there? Besides that, paper...
G4/VG10. The reverse is less worn than the obverse. So probably a net of VG8 damaged
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